| Digital imaging has really opened up the possibilities for alternative printing because it is no longer necessary to have a big camera to make a big negative (most alternative processes want contact printing because of slow emulsions).
I did some gum bichromate printing many, many years ago, my method back then was to enlarge a 35mm negative onto a sheet of film, and then contact print the resulting positive to get a negative for printing.
As you mentoned, not it's a fairly simple process to output an inkjet negative.
The only thing that might be an issue is if you are using a colour inkset to create your monochrome negative you might end up with wonky results. Many of the older processed have very limited colour responses.
You might want to dedicate a printer to creating negatives and go to a custom quad tone black ink set. |